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| Musk to launch his favorite car into Mars orbit! |
| 2017-12-02 |
 Regarding the mystery payload for his Falcon Heavy rocket's test flight Elon Musk says: [Twitter] Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn’t blow up on ascent. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #12 Wishing it would placed in a slow air-braking orbit, with inflatable balloon things. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2017-12-02 17:49 |
| #11 He didn't understand the engineering and logistical complexity of volume building vehicles. I doubt he will solve them before going broke. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-12-02 17:38 |
| #10 |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-12-02 16:37 |
| #9 2008 Roadster as being 3,946 mm long and 1,873 mm wide, and the diagonal of such a rectangle is 4,368 mm, so it should fit a standard F9 fairing which offers 4.6 m ID. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-12-02 15:20 |
| #8 |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-12-02 15:19 |
| #7 His last demo payload was a wheel of cheese. A car is much cooler. End of story. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-12-02 11:51 |
| #6 He could have built and launched an actual probe to a comet, like the so-called "interstellar asteroid" that flew past the inner system in the past year. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-12-02 10:08 |
| #5 Alternatively, he could take $200 million, make a pile and light it on fire. I'm sure the stockholders are thrilled. They'd be even more thrilled if Tesla could produce more than 10 Model 3 cars a day. |
| Posted by: Blossom Smiter of the Ostrogoths6922 2017-12-02 07:59 |
| #4 Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities. Wile E. Coyote was driving Acme models decades ago. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-12-02 05:55 |
| #3 Nice. more time capsule space junk, this time over another planet. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-12-02 00:48 |
| #2 A post a couple of weeks ago that everybody ignored Post Not saying the next gen Roadster special upgrade package *will* definitely enable it to fly short hops, but maybe … Certainly possible. Just a question of safety. Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-12-02 00:31 |
| #1 I love this guy. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-12-02 00:28 |